金属材料快速凝固激光加工与成形

报道近年来在先进金属材料快速凝固激光表面改性、金属间化合物高温耐磨耐蚀涂层新材料快速凝固激光熔覆制备技术、钛合金及高温合金等高性能金属零件快速凝固激光成形技术等领域的研究进展, 主要内容包括:钛合金激光表面合金化及激光熔覆表面改性、激光熔覆高温耐磨耐蚀多功能金属间化合物涂层、小面相非平衡凝固液固界面结构及生长机制、钛合金及高温合金高性能零部件激光快速成形、难熔高活性金属材料及定向生长柱状晶钛合金激光约束熔铸成形技术.      

A review of long drop tubes as a supplement/alternative to space experiments

The 100 meter high drop tube at the Marshall Space Flight Center has proven to be a viable facility for studies of containerless solidification. Advantages are that experiments are inexpensive and large numbers of specimens can be processed rapidly. It would not be unusual to run ten specimens in a day. Another significant advantage is that the undercooling behavior can be followed with sufficient sensitivity to easily detect the onset of recalescence and subsequent events.Disadvantages are the restrictions on specimen sizes and types of alloys that can be run in a microgravity environment. Practical specimen sizes range between 50 mg and 500 mg depending on the type of furnace being used. Refractory alloys can be processed in a vacuum (about 10^?5 torr) and therefore at microgravity. Non-refractory alloys demand an atmosphere (about 200 torr) to obtain appreciable undercooling before impact at the bottom of the tube. Under these conditions significant g forces result.Because of the present limitations of the 100 meter drop tube, the most definitive work has been done on niobium based alloys. Large amounts of undercooling have been observed routinely and the effects of undercooling on microstructure have been characterized in detail. X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy have been used to determine types of phases, amounts of phases, and compositions of phases. It is clear, as would be expected, that the results bear some resemblance to rapid solidification processing by quenching. However, there are dissimilarities due to the uniqueness of solidification by deep undercooling without quenching in long drop tubes and accompanying recalescence effects.     

热冲击作用下钨钒合金的表面开裂及熔化行为

本文研究了机械合金化+热压（HP）烧结制备的钨钒（W-V）合金在热冲击作用下的表面损伤行为。以合金中钒的质量分数作为变量,探究钒质量分数的变化（1%~10%）对钨钒合金抗热冲击性能的影响。利用光学显微镜、扫描电镜、能谱仪、纳米压痕仪等多种测试方式,分析表征了HP烧结钨钒合金的组织结构特征及其经过热冲击测试后的表面开裂及熔化行为特征。结果表明:在1 800℃、20 MPa的压力条件下保温2 h可以制备出致密度高、合金化程度高的钨钒合金,且随着钒质量分数的增加,合金样品的致密度有所提高;合金样品中钨基体硬度大于富钒相,在高能电子束模拟的国际热核聚变实验堆（ITER）边界局域模（ELMs）热冲击作用下,钨基体对裂纹扩展的阻碍作用明显强于富钒相;随着钒质量分数的升高,合金的开裂阈值和熔化阈值均降低,本文对相关机理进行了讨论。      

Microgravity Material Research in China:2016

Firstly, recent research works of high undercooling and rapid solidification of metallic alloys under ground simulation conditions in Northwestern Polytechnical University are reviewed. Secondly, under normal gravity and microgravity of binary to quinary Nickel-base single crystal alloys with different contents of W, Ta, Al and Ti elements are comparatively investigated by Institute of Metal Research using drop tube. Thirdly, solidification and crystal growth of SJ10-Recoverable Scientific Experiment Satellite by Institute of Semiconductors is introduced.      

Mass transport in the near vicinity of solidification fronts under conditions of microgravity

Cellular solidification has been known and discussed since a long time. The appearance of cellular and dendritic microstructure closely resembles Benard cells known from fluid physics. Similar generation mechanismus may possibly be assumed. Both g-dependent and g-independent convective phenomena may probably be linked to the occurrence of instabilities at solidification fronts. It is to be expected that normal freezing of model alloys (advantageously such with no volume change at the freezing point) in a defined temperature gradient (gradient furnace) and quenching them may help to quantity g-influence on solidification.     

泡沫铜/低熔点合金复合相变材料凝固放热分析

为研究泡沫铜/低熔点合金(LMPA)复合相变材料在间歇放热工作环境下恢复至初始状态的能力及不同孔隙率泡沫铜的添加对其凝固放热过程的影响，通过数值模拟对比分析了47合金、正二十三烷与泡沫铜复合前后的凝固放热过程，并调节泡沫铜/47合金复合材料孔隙率计算模拟芯片温度在凝固放热过程中温度随时间变化曲线。结果表明:泡沫铜的添加对2类材料凝固过程均有促进作用，模拟芯片恢复至目标温度所需时间分别被缩短6.6%和47.7%。因体积潜热值的差距，泡沫铜/47合金凝固时需放出更多热量，恢复至目标温度的时间较长，是正二十三烷复合相变材料的1.52倍。随着孔隙率的增大，复合相变材料恢复至室温状态所用时长变化不大，考虑到孔隙率对相变热控过程中的影响，实际使用时应综合考虑。      

Zr含量对Mg-Zr合金组织和性能的影响

研究了镁锆合金的晶粒细化机理,制备了不同锆含量的镁锆合金,在制备过程中采用了含有SF₆的混合气进行气体保护.研究了镁锆合金凝固组织与性能,以及应变、频率、温度和锆含量对合金阻尼性能的影响,利用减振实验验证了合金的阻尼性能.结果表明:随着合金锆含量的增加,晶粒尺寸细化为30 μm,同时合金力学性能得到了改善.研究还表明,合金阻尼性能和频率无关,但随着应变量的增加而不断提高,并且在ε=1×10-4时,损耗因子达到5.3×10-2高阻尼水平.采用Mg-Zr合金制作的仪表基座对振动信号的传递比为1.88,显著低于ZM6和LY12合金基座的传递比.      

纳米复合相变材料熔化过程数值模拟

相变储能技术在航空航天等领域具有广泛的应用前景,但是相变材料导热性能差制约了其工程化应用。高导热的纳米材料能够有效提高相变材料的导热性能。为了对其相变现象进行更精细的模拟分析,基于Maxwell-Garnett等效介质理论（EMT）建立3种具有代表性结构的纳米复合相变材料详细物性参数,将流体体积（VOF）模型与焓-多孔介质模型相耦合,在考虑相变材料体积膨胀的情况下,数值模拟了纯石蜡、添加不同体积组分金刚石纳米粒子（ND）、单壁碳纳米管（SWCNT）和石墨烯纳米片（GnP）的纳米复合相变材料在定温边界条件下的固液相变过程。结果表明:相变材料熔化过程中对流效应主要分布在临近固液相界面、临近加热壁面及临近气液两相交界面这3个区域;3种纳米粒子中GnP的导热强化效果最佳,相比纯石蜡,添加体积分数为3%的GnP纳米复合相变材料固相导热系数提高了486%,相变材料的熔化时间缩短了69%;升高壁面温度能够有效缩短复合相变材料的熔化时间。      

微重力与电磁场对凝固过程的影响

欧洲空间局两项材料领域课题MICAST和CETSOL均涉及微重力科学相关研究.通过等轴晶柱状晶转变（CET）分析了微重力环境对材料凝固过程的影响;介绍了一项在地面施加行波电磁场的标准（Benchmark）凝固实验,其温度场演化及微观凝固组织和浓度偏析均展示了磁控受迫对流对金属材料凝固过程的显著作用.      

Power supplies for long duration balloon flights

Long duration balloon flights require more electrical power than can be carried in primary batteries. This paper provides design information for selecting rechargeable batteries and charging systems. Solar panels for recharging batteries are discussed, with particular emphasis on cells mounting suitable for balloon flights and panel orientation for maximum power collection. Since efficient utilization of power is so important, modern DC to DC power conversion techniques are presented.On short flights of 1 day or less, system designers have not been greatly concerned with battery weight. But, with the advent of long duration balloon flights using superpressure balloons, anchor balloon systems, and RACOON balloon techniques, power supplies and their weight become of prime importance. The criteria for evaluating power systems for long duration balloon flights is performance per unit weight. Instrumented balloon systems have flown 44 days. For these very long duration flights, batteries recharged from solar cells are the only solution. For intermediate flight duration, say less than 10 days, the system designer should seriously consider using primary cells.     

Space Materials Science in China: I. Experiment Studies under Microgravity

The virtual absence of gravity-dependent phenomena in microgravity allows an in-depth understanding of fundamental events that are normally obscured and therefore are difficult to study quantitatively on Earth. Of particular interest is that the low-gravity environment aboard space provides a unique platform to synthesize alloys of semiconductors with homogeneous composition distributions, on both the macroscopic and microscopic scales, due to the much reduced buoyancy-driven convection. On the other hand, the easy realization of detached solidification in microgravity suppresses the formation of defects such as dislocations and twins, and thereby the crystallographic perfection is greatly increased. Moreover, the microgravity condition offers the possibilities to elucidate the liquid/solid interfacial structures, as well as clarify the microstructure evolution path of the metal alloys (or composites) during the solidification process. Motivated by these facts, growths of compound semiconductors and metal alloys were carried out under microgravity by using the drop tube, or on the scientific platforms of Tiangong-2 and SJ-10. The following illustrates the main results.      

一种空间相变换热器热设计与仿真分析及其改进

基于相变计算方法即焓法处理相变材料凝固/融化模型,对一个以水为主动冷却介质,内填充石蜡类相变蓄热材料的板式相变换热器的换热进行数值模拟.得到了不同重力条件下冷却面的温度分布,相变材料在融化过程中的动态温度场分布、相变界面分布、融化时间等结果,验证了该相变换热器的可行性.对比该相变换热器在重力与微重力不同条件下的性能差异,利用添加强化传热肋片与泡沫复合相变材料方法,提高了微重力条件下该类相变换热器的效率,可为空间相变蓄热装置的设计及实验研究提供重要参考.      

Medium energy gamma ray astronomy with transpacific balloon flights

Transpacific balloon flights with the University of California, Riverside (UCR) double scatter telescope are discussed. With flight durations from 5 days up to perhaps 15 days the long observation times necessary for medium energy (1–30 MeV) gamma ray astronomy can be obtained. These flights would be made under the auspices of the Joint U.S.-Japan Balloon Flight Program at NASA. We propose that flights can provide at least 30 hours of observation time per flight for many discrete source candidates and 120 hours for detecting low intensity cosmic gamma ray bursts.     

基于交通状态的离场航班动态协同排序方法

为适应协同决策(CDM)需要，考虑空管、航司和机场三方的诉求，对拥挤和非拥挤场景下的离场航班动态协同排序问题进行了系统研究。通过分析离场航班运行特性，利用离场航班的计划撤轮档时间(SOBT)和预计撤轮档时间(EOBT)数据设计了一种离场航班动态排序方法；针对各方构建了离场航班排序的多个优化目标，且为保证排序公平性，提出了航空公司延误公平性评价指标，将非受控离场航班优先级分为3类，对各类非受控离场航班设置其可接受的最大延误时间和最大位置偏移量，创建了基于交通状态的离场航班协同排序模型；采用带精英策略的快速非支配排序遗传算法(NSGA-Ⅱ)寻求离场航班动态协同排序的最优解。仿真结果表明:较先到先服务(FCFS)方法，所提方法在2种场景下各排序时段均增加多种排序方案，离场航班总延误均减少50%以上，且在非拥挤场景下提高了航空公司延误公平性。所提方法可对离场航班进行优化排序，显著减少航班延误，有效提升公平性，契合协同决策理念，可实现三方协同排序。      

Eutectic solidification of Al-Cu alloys influenced by convection

Directional solidification of eutectic Al-Cu alloys has been studied to demonstrate the influence of both impurity concentration and convective conditions. The λ/R relations show that higher iron concentration and intensive stirring coarsen the microstructure. The formation and growth of new iron-containing phases at the solidification front restrict impurity influence. Kinetic data follow a dependence λ.Rⁿ=const with n-value close to 0,5.     

An observation of snow melting process from remotely sensed data

Observations of satellite images have shown that the snow melting in mountainous area proceeds more repidly in the east-facing slope of the valley than in the west-facing one. The energy for melting snow consists of the total from the atmosphere and from the solar rays. The diurnal variation of the solar energy into the snow in the east-facing slope differs from that in the west-facing slope. This causes the heighest value of the instantaneous energy for melting snow to occur in the west-facing surface. As one of the reasons for the above tendency, the difference of the heighest value to melt snow may be taken into account.     

Gravitational influence on binary alloy melt equilibria

Micro- and macrosegregation, the nonuniform redistribution of solute during solidification, are common to both casting and welding, processes of fundamental importance in materials engineering. In multicomponent crystal growth where solid/liquid density differences are appreciable gravity-induced separation can lead to significant spatial variations in resulting ingot composition. In fact, this phenomenon is also operative in liquid/liquid systems such as monotectic alloys exhibiting a liquid miscibility gap, where buoyancy-driven flows can result in a sometimes unwanted separation of phases upon cooling through the miscibility dome.     

High altitude flights in equatorial regions

A thorough analysis of balloon flights made from Hyderabad, India (Latitude 17°28′N, Longitude 78°35′E), and other equatorial sites has been made. It has been shown that limited success is expected for flights made from equatorial latitudes with balloons made out of natural colour polyethylene film, since the best known balloon film in the world today viz. Winzen Stratofilm is tested for low temperature brittleness only at ?80°C., whereas the tropopause temperatures over equatorial latitudes vary between ?80°C and ?90°C. The success becomes even more critical when flights are made with heavy payloads and larger balloons particularly at night when in the absence of solar radiation the balloon film becomes more susceptible to low temperature brittle failure. It is recommended that in case of capped balloons longer caps should be used to fully cover the inflated protion of the balloon at the higher level equatorial tropopause. It is also advised that the conditions such as wind shears in the tropopause should be critically studied before launching and a day with the tropopause temperature nearer to ?80°C should be chosen. Special care also should be taken while handling the balloon on ground and during launching phase. Properties of Winzen Stratofilm have been critically studied and fresh mandates have been recommended on the basis of limiting values of film stresses which caused balloon failures in the equatorial tropopause. It is also emphasized that the data on such flights is still meagre especially for flights with heavy payloads and larger balloons. It has been also shown that it is safest to use balloons made out of grey coloured film which retains its flexibility with the absorption of solar radiation, the success obtained with such balloons so far being 100%. The drawback, however, is that these balloons cannot be used for night flights. Stratospheric wind regimes over Hyderabad are also discussed with a view to determine the period over which long duration flights can be made. The data available, however, is meagre and it is recommended that more frequent special wind ascents be made to collect adequate statistical data from which reliable conclusions could be drawn through critical analysis.     

Upwards migration phenomenon on molten lunar regolith: New challenges and prospects for ISRU

As part of our research on the feasibility of producing commodities from lunar regolith by thermal-driven processes with minimal terrestrial precursors we need to characterize, reproduce, and understand thermophysical properties of the molten regolith still unforeseen under the lunar vacuum conditions at a scalable sample size. Two unanticipated phenomena, apparently caused by lunar melt’s surface tension under vacuum, have been revealed in our research work, vacuum void formation and upwards migration. In this paper we present our findings and thinkable explanation on the upwards migration phenomenon experimentally observed and consistently replicated as JSC-1A lunar regolith simulant melted at high vacuum. Upwards migration of molten lunar regolith will make future lunar ISRU’s melting processes both challenging as molten bulk material would migrate upwards along the container’s walls, and also promising on new opportunities for alternative ISRU’s sustainable processes as regolith’s upwards migration takes place in uniformed thin-film pattern. Among the potential ISRU’s processes that might use controlled thermal thin-film-based migration without the necessity of terrestrial precursors are production of feedstock for 3D printing, fractional separation of regolith’s component’s (O₂, metals, and alloys) via pyrolysis, film coating, purification of valuables solid crystals including silicon, and fabrication of key elements for microfluidic, and MEMS devices. Thermal upwards migration phenomenon on JSC-1A’s melt is formulated and explained by the authors as due to thermal Marangoni effect (also known as thermo-capillarity) in which temperature gradients within the melt’s bulk and along the crucible’s wall yield the surface tension large enough to supersede the gravitational force and yield the experimentally observed upwards thin-film migration. As far as the authors know, upwards thermal migration of molten JSC-1A (or other lunar simulant regolith) under vacuum has not been reported in the literature. A thermal mathematical model accounting for thermal Marangoni effect on molten JSC-1A agrees with what experimentally was observed, the formation of the meniscus on the melt-wall surface interface along with an incipient upwards migration in thin-film pattern along the crucible wall that, according to the model, experiences large temperature gradient, an important factor to trigger the thermal Marangoni effect along with the fact that surface tension of the molten lunar regolith material is temperature dependent.     

Stratospheric flights with large polyethylene baloons from equatorial latitudes

Starting with average 50% success for stratospheric balloon flights during 1959–1969 and attaining 100% success during 1972–1973, the success record dropped to 50% during 1974–1979. Through a critical analysis of 59 flights made from Hyderabad and 21 flights made from other equatorial bases, revised design criteria were proposed for balloons to be flown from equatorial latitudes, which were accepted by M/s Winzen International, Inc. (WII), U.S.A. and have again raised the success record to 93% for 15 flights made since April 1980. A revised analysis for 71 flights made from 1965 to 1984 has been presented. Stratospheric circulation over Hyderabad indicating predominance of easterlies with mesospheric westerlies descending occasionally into stratosphere has been discussed.